The Pit & Me, A Fractious OTP
May. 13th, 2006 08:53 pmIn a mood of bitchy whatever today I changed my profile page at The Pit. I decided I'd kept what was up there as the same for more than two years, and really, I didn't feel like scrolling past so much anymore. I was sad to ditch the quotes, but I wanted to simplify. Streamline. So I decided to put down my essential opinions about ff.net in two neat sentences, bold, and follow with my favorite unidentified quote.
I think I was feeling oddly inspired by this picture (though I hadn't been to that particular site in a long time), combined with a general irritation at people who can't take critical reviews without their brains and sense of manners exploding. They just bug me. And hell, criticism is usually only about 10-15% of the reviews I leave when I'm reading fanfic.
So there it is. Simple, to the point, and not requiring any further explanation on my part, I hope. This way when I write a review complaining about bad rape fic or using Japanese suffixes for American cartoon characters, they can float their irritated asses over to my FF.Net account, observe my bio page, and know I really don't give a crap if I hurt their best friends' feelings and scared her away from fanfiction forever just because I pointed out that she has terrible dialogue.
So...yeah. Bitchy. Really don't know where that came from, since I haven't actually had that particular internet experience in at least a month.
Must be because I have to houseclean tonight. I hate housecleaning.
Edit:
You know what I'm going to do tomorrow night?
I'm going to make a scatterplot of my number of fics versus reviews. Then I'm going to use it as my userpicture at ff.net. Then I'll finally be able to point people somewhere when they threaten to stop writing if they don't get X number of reviews. I'll be like, "Talk to the scatterplot, not to the face."
I think I was feeling oddly inspired by this picture (though I hadn't been to that particular site in a long time), combined with a general irritation at people who can't take critical reviews without their brains and sense of manners exploding. They just bug me. And hell, criticism is usually only about 10-15% of the reviews I leave when I'm reading fanfic.
So there it is. Simple, to the point, and not requiring any further explanation on my part, I hope. This way when I write a review complaining about bad rape fic or using Japanese suffixes for American cartoon characters, they can float their irritated asses over to my FF.Net account, observe my bio page, and know I really don't give a crap if I hurt their best friends' feelings and scared her away from fanfiction forever just because I pointed out that she has terrible dialogue.
So...yeah. Bitchy. Really don't know where that came from, since I haven't actually had that particular internet experience in at least a month.
Must be because I have to houseclean tonight. I hate housecleaning.
Edit:
You know what I'm going to do tomorrow night?
I'm going to make a scatterplot of my number of fics versus reviews. Then I'm going to use it as my userpicture at ff.net. Then I'll finally be able to point people somewhere when they threaten to stop writing if they don't get X number of reviews. I'll be like, "Talk to the scatterplot, not to the face."
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Date: 2006-05-14 06:08 am (UTC)